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SLNet Installation, Configuration, Administration, and User Guide
Locating and dispatching Popups
The work you do in your console window may cause an error message or dialog box requesting some
response and these will appear as a popup in your session, preventing further work in that console window
until the popup containing that error message or dialog box has been dispatched.
If your work in a session has been interrupted and you can no longer input to that window, it is best to check
for a popup by bringing up the Menu (press CTRL a CTRL w).
If the Menu lists a popup under the desktop, use your arrow keys or equivalent keystroke combination to
navigate to it. Press ENTER or v to view the popup under the associated console window. The Process
Identifier (shown inside the bracket) refers to the process that created the popup.
The safest way to dispatch the popup is to move the highlight to the popup on the menu and press Z to kill it.
If that fails, the second safest thing to do is to kill the console window. If you don‘t want to kill the window, go
to the process associated with the popup and kill the process directly using Z.
Applying Z to a process is more dangerous than killing a window because the process won‘t have a chance to
exit gracefully. Since the menu is updated every few seconds, it may take a few seconds for windows that you
kill to disappear from the menu.
Killing a window or dialog box using Z is the same as clicking the ―Close‖ button in the upper right corner of
the window.
Hot Key Commands
* Where ellipses (…) are used, they indicate that the pattern set by the preceding simulation is followed. For example, to
simulate Function Key 2, you would use the same sequence as for Function Key 1, only replacing the 1 with a 2.
** These commands affect when the SHIFT key presses and key releases are sent on to the window. They do not affect
programs operating in pass through modes, as we send these programs ASCII streams of characters, rather than
keystrokes.
*** WARNING: This command is bound to a shifted key. Windows’ Telnet client will appear to HANG if you press
CTRL+SHIFT+<x>, where <x> is any key. Be sure to release CTRL (and a) before typing the next character.
Sequence*
Result when working in Menus
j
Move selection arrow down one line
k
Move selection arrow up one line
b
Move back one page (PgUp)
f
Move forward one page (PgDn)
+
Expand to view processes under the selected window
-
Collapse information under the selected window
TAB
Toggle collapse/expand display for selected window
BACKSPACE
Toggle collapse/expand display for selected window
Z (capital Z)
Kill a listed window or process or popup
ENTER (When pointing to a window)
close the menu and make the highlighted window the current console window
ENTER (When pointing at a popup)
locate popup under the process it is associated with
v (When pointing at a popup)
display popup location
ESC
Hide the menu and returns to selected window
q
Hide the menu and returns to selected window
CTRL-a CTRL-k u
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